The Thames Walk for Water

Last year, around 20,000 children and parents took part in sponsored walks in villages, towns and cities across the UK as part of our Turn on the Tap campaign.

This year, the walk is going global.

We’ve teamed up with our sister organisations in Australia, Canada and Europe to organise a Global Walk for Water – inviting schools and churches, children and parents, young and old to go for a local walk with a global impact.

1,000s of people across the globe…all walking 1 million miles….raising 1 million pounds in the UK alone…for families living without clean water.

The Thames Walk is where it all began... 15 days, a combined 899 miles walked, Cirencester to the Thames Barrier.

You can see some of their photos and read about their adventures in the entries below. Find out more about Turn on the Tap at www.turnonthetap.org.uk there's also a donation link where you can sponsor us.

Friday, 27 March 2009

Day 7 Wallingford to Tilehurst

Another grey and windy day was predicted by the Met office and I’m glad to say they got it wrong, it was beautiful! It was a day of contrasts as far as the scenery was concerned with rolling fields and wooded hill climbs.




At one point we thought we had strayed onto the River Nile when we came across this house of Grand Designs, very Egyptian!





Keeping the animal theme going we saw an elephant and a very fine beast it was.












Towards the end of the walk we met Francis who had been talking to our new ‘minder’ Gordon McCann because of the t-shirt he had been wearing. He invited us back to his place for a drink of tea. He told us he had down sized to this house and what a beautiful place it was! He gave us a huge print depicting the nativity in a bus shelter that he had had specially commissioned and we could auction this signed copy for our charity.






Tomorrow we start at 10am depart from platform W at Tilehurst Railway Station. You still have time to join us. Then on Sunday we depart from Henley-on-Thames.

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